May 18+19, 2027
Time: 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM (Both days)
Location: 302-1200 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
Trainer: Janet Schmidt, Jana Samolesky and Alia Harb

If you'd like to register someone else, or a group of people, please connect with our Front Desk at info@mswpg.ca.

About This Course

Applied Mediation Practice is an advanced, highly interactive skills-based course designed to help participants deepen, integrate, and apply the mediation concepts and frameworks introduced in Foundational Mediation Skills.

The course emphasizes experiential learning through intensive role-play practice, coaching, observation, reflection, and facilitated feedback. Participants engage in realistic mediation scenarios that explore emotionally charged conversations, misunderstandings, relationship strain, differing perspectives, recurring conflict patterns, and difficult communication dynamics.

Course Objectives

Participants will:

• Deepen and strengthen foundational mediation skills through applied practice
• Build greater confidence facilitating mediation conversations
• Practice managing emotionally charged dialogue and difficult mediation moments
• Strengthen active listening, reframing, summarizing, and reflective questioning skills
• Develop greater comfort facilitating conversations involving tension, misunderstanding, and defensiveness
• Explore how assumptions, intentions, impacts, and unmet needs shape conflict dynamics
• Practice helping parties move from positional arguments toward greater understanding
• Strengthen preparation, assessment, and intervention skills within mediation processes
• Build greater awareness of mediator presence, emotional regulation, and process management
• Develop practical skills through role-play practice, observation, coaching, and facilitated feedback

Are you ready to deepen your mediation skills through intensive role-play practice, coaching, feedback, and real-world conflict scenarios?

*Course Cancellation Policy